A Sleek Waterfront Home on a Washington Island Lists for $6.8 Million

Some houses are designed as a collection of rooms; others are created to dissolve into their surroundings. On Washington’s picturesque Bainbridge Island, a contemporary waterfront residence takes the latter approach, embracing light, water, and the landscape as central elements of daily life.

Designed as the architect’s own home, the property occupies 2.5 acres with roughly 275 feet of frontage overlooking historic Blakely Harbor. Steel-framed walls of glass…